I quilted one block at a time. Each block is approximately 12.5" so it was lots of fun to zip around on it and just have a small little sandwich to maneuver.
I started with green thread and echoed all the strips. After doing all twenty blocks, I switched to pink thread and did all twenty blocks again. After doing the same with orange and yellow, for some of the areas I had to start over again with green.
That thread in the lower right corner is just a dangler that will go away when I square up the blocks.
I laid out the blocks the way I wanted them before I started quilting, so I labeled each one with the row and column number so I could reassemble them correctly. I also wrote "top" on there, and pinned the label to the top. You might think that such a random assortment of strips wouldn't matter as to how you assembled them, but it mattered to me.
These are the backing squares.
When the quilt is pieced, the back will be a mirror image of this, because I'll be sewing together twenty sandwiches. If this was going to be a one large pieced rectangle for the backing, then it would look just like this.
It made my brain itch, but this is what causes the mirror image: My row 1 column 1 front block got quilted to the row 1 column 1 large
floral backing block in the upper left corner. When all the blocks are
sewn together, and you turn the quilt over, that block stays in row 1,
but moves to column 4.
At first I didn't want a mirror image, so I started rearranging the back squares so they would come out right. But I liked it just as well either way, so I put them back and decided to go find something else to worry about.
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